CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION This Chapter Covers Background of The

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

This chapter covers background of the study, statement of the problem,

objective of the study, significance of the study, scope and limitation of the study

and definition of key terms. All these sections will be discussed as follows:

1.1. Background of Study

Every human expresses their personality and fulfill their social interaction

with other people by using language. Language refers to the process of

conveying meaning and referring idea. According to Kreidler (1998:19),

language is used to communicate and interact with each other in our daily life,

whether in society, environment, educational institutions, recreational places,

family, etc. Moreover, communication can be success if both of listener and speaker can give clear meaning and use language easily. The meaning will be

clear if the listener or reader know about who, where, and when the utterance is

uttered. Sometimes

listener. It is related to understanding of utterance meaning with the reference or

the context itself. In order to understand the reference of utterance, reader or

listener should be able to identify the contexts of utterance. This phenomenon

called by deixis.

Deixis is a study to describe the relation between language and contexts in

language structure itself. According to Levinson (1983:54), deixis comes from

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Greek word means It means that the function of deixis

is to point or indicate something. In other word, the utterance or sentence can be

called as deixis if the referent is nomadic and change depend on the context.

Deixis is including in pragmatic fields. It is a study of meaning related to the

context. According to Levinson (1983:5), pragmatics is the study of language

usage and how people interpret the meaning of the conversation based on the

context. While, Yule (1996: 3) stated that pragmatics is concerned with the study

of meaning as communicated by a speaker or a writer and interpreted by a

listener or a reader. Talking about deixis, it cannot be separated with context.

Mey (1993:41) stated that context is more than just a reference. Context is the

whole of situation which is complete the meaning of sentences. Context in can

help the reade There are several researchers who

have conducted the research on deixis such as in poem, novel, movie, interview,

etc. Besides that, the phenomenon of deixis also can be found in song lyrics. Lyrics are not only the string of words into sentences but also representations

family, friends etc. One of the singers which show the meaningful lyric is Bruno

Mars. Bruno Mars is an American singer song writer, record producer, voice

actor, and choreographer. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii by a family of

musicians, Mars begin his career in music at a young age and perform in various

musical venues in his hometown throughout his childhood. His debut album is

Doo Wops and Hooligan which is released in 2010 peaked at number three on

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the Billboard 200 anchored by the worldwide number by the singles

Way you are and . (http://www.biography.com/people/bruno-mars).

In Doo Wops and Hooligan 2010 album, the writer uses seven selected songs.

First song is Grenade. Grenade is one of the popular songs of Bruno Mars

released on 2010 that tells the story about heartbreak caused by a failed

relationship. Grenade represents the other side of love where you are in love with

a woman and you know that she does not love you the way you love her. The

second is Talking to the Moon that invites us to know and explore into the dreams

and hopes of the special person. His song Just the Way You are declared as a

single pledge in Doo Wops and Hooligan 2010 album. This song tells about the

sincerity love of a boy to a girl. Next song is The Lazy Song that tells about

someone who lazy to do something and just want to stay at home. Count on Me

tells us about the actual and best friend. When a friend was having trouble, they

will be there for the other. The following song is Marry You. This song lyric explain about spontaneous marriage idea. The last is Liquor Store Blues which is

tells about

There are a lot of researchers that conduct research on deixis using different

topic and object. The first research conducted by Magdalena,

poems such as Three Years She Grew in Suin and Shower, Nutting and We are

Seven. In her research, she uses the theory of Levinson and find seven kinds of

deixis include person deixis, time deixis, place deixis, social deixis, discourse

deixis, gestural deixis and symbolic deixis. The next research conducted by Dwi

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Setyawati (2013), ent

Deixis in the novel are taken from conversations conducted by

characters in the novel and analyze by using descriptive qualitative way. the

following research has done by Sherly Marliana (201

Deixis in the Transcription of the Interview between Oprah Winfrey, President

The current research will focus on deixis in song lyrics of Bruno Mars Doo

Wops and Hooligan 2010 album because the writer noticed that every people like

listen to the music and Bruno Mars is one of the popular singer in the world. The

writer chooses song lyrics as the research object because during the writer reads

references about deixis, the research object which most often use is in the novel,

poem, movie, short story and interview. The writer only finds one research which

conducted in song lyric but it is only focused on one type of deixis not all the

types of deixis. While in this thesis, the writer analyzes all the types of deixis which is contained in the song lyrics of Bruno Mars Doo Wops and Hooligan

2010 album

also helps the reader to know the meaning or the message in the song.

1.2. Statement of the Problems

Based on the background of the study above, there are two statements of the

problem addressed in this study, they are:

a. Doo Wops

and Hooligans 2010 album?

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b. What are the reference meanings of deixis found in song lyrics of Bruno

Doo Wops and Hooligans 2010 album?

1.3. Objective of the Study

Based on the problem of the study above, the objectives of this study are

formulated as follows:

a. Doo -

Wops and Hooligans 2010 album.

b. To analyze the reference meaning of deixis found in song lyrics of Bruno

Doo Wops and Hooligans 2010 album

1.4. Significance of the Study

This study is significant to conduct some considerations include theoretical

and practical. There are a lot of researchers which discusses about deixis with a variety of different topics and research object such as novels, movie, short story

and poem.

1.4.1. Theoretically, this study can give significances such as to show the use of

deixis in English songs and give information about the reference meaning

of deixis in the English songs.

1.4.2. Practically, the writer hopes for the next researchers who are interested in

studying pragmatics to make other pragmatics field such as in implicature,

speech acts, entailments or presupposition. For the next researcher who are

interested to observe deixis to explore more about deixis in another object.

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1.5. Scope and Limitation

In order to make the discussion in this study more focus on the problem, the

writer decides to make the scope and limitation. The scope of this study is to

identify and analyze the five types of deixis include personal deixis, spatial deixis,

temporal deixis, social deixis and discourse deixis based on theory of Levinson.

While the limitation of this study is the use of seven selected song lyrics of Bruno

Doo Wops and Hooligans 2010 album, include Grenade, Count on Me,

Just the Way You Are, the Lazy Song, Talking to The Moon, Liquor Store Blues

and Marry You.

1.6. Definition of Key Terms

There are several key terms which are significant for this study. Therefore, in

order to help the reader in understanding this study, it is important for the writer to

explain the definition of those key terms. 1.6.1. Deixis comes from the Greek word means nting or indicating and

has function to point or indicate something. Deixis also has definition as

the referring expression in which the interpretation of utterance depends on

the context of utterance. It divided into five types include personal, spatial,

temporal, discourse and social deixis, (Levinson, 1983).

1.6.2. Bruno Mars is an American singer songwriter, record producer, voice

actor, and choreographer. While, Doo Wops and Hooligan 2010 album is

the first and debut album which is peaked number three on the Billboard

by worldwide number.

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